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History > USA > Civil rights > NYC > Harlem > Photos
Photograph: Michael Evans The New York Times
A Curbside Sermon From Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker
The Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker served as chief of staff for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from 1960 to 1964 and spent nearly four decades as the pastor of Canaan Baptist Church of Christ, in Harlem.
In this photo, from April 5, 1970, he is taking his message to the streets.
Although it perfectly captures the urgency of his fight against drug dealers and addiction, our article the next day did not include a photo.
We spoke to Dr. Walker, 86, about the unpublished image and the role of the faith community.
I was at the height of my prime, at 116th street in Harlem, and we had a big problem with drug trafficking and our kids.
They’d be recruited for drugs, then come to the community centers under the auspices of the church.
That picture was taken when I was talking to the parents of the children. NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/national/unpublished-black-history/
Mr. Ben, left, at House’s Barber Shop. Harlem. 1986-92.
Photograph: Jeffrey Henson Scales HSP Archive, from the book “House” (SPQR Editions, 2016)
Harlem’s Rich History, Inside House’s Barbershop NYT Oct. 27, 2016
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/10/27/
Photograph: Don Hogan Charles The New York Times
The Harlem of Don Hogan Charles
On Aug. 8, 1966, The New York Times ran an article that said many Harlem residents wished more white people would visit to see for themselves their community’s reality.
The article, by McCandlish Phillips, detailed in an almost anthropological way the Harlem of 1966 to Times readers.
“A curtain of fear, about as forbidding as a wall of brick, has made the black ghetto almost psychologically impenetrable to the white man — at a time when many in the ghetto sense that it needs the white man to help it save itself from a kind of psychological secession from a white society,” Mr. Phillips wrote.
The article went on to note that many “Negroes protest that white people see Harlem in caricature,” but at the same time it stated — citing no authority — that thousands of children had shoes only for Sunday or none at all.
Another Times finding was that “a surprising number” of residents preferred the word black to Negro, and some are turning to the study of African history and African dress.” As part of the usual newspaper process, Don Hogan Charles, then 27 years old, was assigned to take the pictures – to spend a weekend documenting Harlem, where he lived.
Mr. Charles was the first black photographer hired by The Times. And the images he made reveal a Harlem much different from the one portrayed in the text.
Four of his photos made it into print with that article, which had probably gone through several levels of editors, and the selected images are strong if somewhat predictable: One shows a scene outside a church; another shows men playing cards on the sidewalk. NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/national/unpublished-black-history/
Photograph: Don Hogan Charles The New York Times
The Harlem of Don Hogan Charles
On Aug. 8, 1966, The New York Times ran an article that said many Harlem residents wished more white people would visit to see for themselves their community’s reality.
The article, by McCandlish Phillips, detailed in an almost anthropological way the Harlem of 1966 to Times readers. “A curtain of fear, about as forbidding as a wall of brick, has made the black ghetto almost psychologically impenetrable to the white man — at a time when many in the ghetto sense that it needs the white man to help it save itself from a kind of psychological secession from a white society,” Mr. Phillips wrote.
The article went on to note that many “Negroes protest that white people see Harlem in caricature,” but at the same time it stated — citing no authority — that thousands of children had shoes only for Sunday or none at all.
Another Times finding was that “a surprising number” of residents preferred the word black to Negro, and some are turning to the study of African history and African dress.” As part of the usual newspaper process, Don Hogan Charles, then 27 years old, was assigned to take the pictures – to spend a weekend documenting Harlem, where he lived. Mr. Charles was the first black photographer hired by The Times.
And the images he made reveal a Harlem much different from the one portrayed in the text. Four of his photos made it into print with that article, which had probably gone through several levels of editors, and the selected images are strong if somewhat predictable: One shows a scene outside a church; another shows men playing cards on the sidewalk. NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/national/unpublished-black-history/
Through his photographs of black neighborhoods, like this 1966 shot of card players on East 100th Street in Harlem, Mr. Charles gave readers an in-depth view of a part of New York City that had often been covered with little nuance.
Photograph: Don Hogan Charles The New York Times
Don Hogan Charles, Lauded Photographer of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 79 NYT DEC. 25, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/25/
Photograph: Don Hogan Charles The New York Times
The Harlem of Don Hogan Charles
On Aug. 8, 1966, The New York Times ran an article that said many Harlem residents wished more white people would visit to see for themselves their community’s reality.
The article, by McCandlish Phillips, detailed in an almost anthropological way the Harlem of 1966 to Times readers.
“A curtain of fear, about as forbidding as a wall of brick, has made the black ghetto almost psychologically impenetrable to the white man — at a time when many in the ghetto sense that it needs the white man to help it save itself from a kind of psychological secession from a white society,” Mr. Phillips wrote.
The article went on to note that many “Negroes protest that white people see Harlem in caricature,” but at the same time it stated — citing no authority — that thousands of children had shoes only for Sunday or none at all.
Another Times finding was that “a surprising number” of residents preferred the word black to Negro, and some are turning to the study of African history and African dress.” As part of the usual newspaper process, Don Hogan Charles, then 27 years old, was assigned to take the pictures – to spend a weekend documenting Harlem, where he lived.
Mr. Charles was the first black photographer hired by The Times.
And the images he made reveal a Harlem much different from the one portrayed in the text. Four of his photos made it into print with that article, which had probably gone through several levels of editors, and the selected images are strong if somewhat predictable: One shows a scene outside a church; another shows men playing cards on the sidewalk. NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/national/unpublished-black-history/
Children playing in front of an apartment complex (1966).
Photograph: Don Hogan Charles The New York Times
From Black-and-White Negatives, a Positive View of Harlem NYT Feb. 15, 2016
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/15/
Harlem. 1963.
Photograph: Al Fennar
Under the Brooklyn Bridge, the New Photoville NYT Sep. 21, 2016
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/09/21/
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Black Muslim Rally. Harlem, N.Y., 1963.
Photograph: Gordon Parks Courtesy of the Gordon Parks Foundation
The Cinematic Images of Gordon Parks NYT Aug. 28, 2017
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/
Photograph: Patrick A. Burns The New York Times
Thurgood Marshall in Harlem
Thurgood Marshall was a lawyer of heroic imagination, who led the team that brought school desegregation to the Supreme Court, winning an end to separate but equal.
In 1967, he became the country’s first black Supreme Court justice.
But five years before that, on the Sunday after Thanksgiving in 1962, he made his way to St. Philip’s Protestant Episcopal Church in Harlem, where he was a vestryman, and bowed his head to receive the St. Philip’s Rector’s Award from the Rev. Dr. M. Moran Weston.
To outsiders perhaps, it was a minor accolade for Mr. Marshall, then a federal appeals court judge.
It went unmentioned in Justice Marshall’s lengthy Times obituary. But the quiet humility he displays here in a photograph (never published until now) reveals just how much his faith, and church, provided him with spiritual strength. NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/national/unpublished-black-history/
Photograph: Fred Sass The New York Times
Behind the Scenes, a Harlem Legend It is the oldest photograph in our series: a sidewalk scene in Harlem from 1946.
A girl skips rope amid a crowd of children on a lazy summer afternoon.
But what is most striking is the woman who was not captured by the camera’s lens.
That woman was Zora Neale Hurston, the novelist and folklorist known as the Queen of the Harlem Renaissance, and she was helping to organize outdoor activities for the children.
She had joined forces with a group of women who were trying to combat juvenile delinquency in the community, showing the world that black people were willing and able “to do things for themselves,” she said. NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/national/unpublished-black-history/
Harlem
Date taken: October 1942
Photographer: John Florea
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/2dfc1c5f80365dcf.html - broken link
Harlem
Date taken: October 1942
Photographer: John Florea
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/d9ccb728c5e5acf5.html - broken link
Harlem
Date taken: October 1942
Photographer: John Florea
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/036a8311ceb5f597.html - broken link
Soldiers march in the Marcus Garvey Parade, 1924
Photograph: James Van Der Zee Donna Mussenden Van Der Zee, Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
A View of Historic Harlem That’s Not on the Walking Tour NYT Feb. 28, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/
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